Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 22:47:28 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com> Cc: Nicolas PONDEMER <pondemer@isty-info.uvsq.fr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014224430.27275D-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <19971010105244.38105@socrates.i-pi.com>
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Kenneth Ingham wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 1997 at 02:56:18PM +0200, Nicolas PONDEMER wrote: > > I want to install FreeBSD on my computer, but is FreeBSD > > reliable (or simply OK) with AMD and Cyrix microprocessors ? > > > > Especially K6. > > I can't speak about the K6 since I don't have one, but I'm running > FreeBSD on a Cyrix P120+ in one of my machines and it runs just fine. > > The machine with the Cyrix processor is my network server (NIS, DNS, Web > cache, router, email). Even with all of those services, it is still > idle most of the time. I can add on to this. My system is a Cyrix 6x86 166+, and it works great; as long as the fan on the CPU (Radio Shack; what can I say?) keeps going, it keeps perking along, and I've put it under some load abuse, including: (simultaneously) 1) calculating pi 2) root 2 3) 5 netscape sessions 4) make buildworld 5) make'ing carious ports And it said 'yeah, what else?' ;-) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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